Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc. Patent applications

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20140098031

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING DATA ON A TOUCH SCREEN - An information processing apparatus that detects touch input at a touch panel disposed on or formed integrally with a display, extracts one or more character strings from a plurality of character strings displayed on the display based on the detected touch input, prioritizes the extracted one or more character strings, and controls the display to display the extracted one or more character strings in order based on the prioritizing.

04-10-2014

20140094229

MOBILE RADIO TERMINAL - An attitude detector installed in a cabinet detects the current attitude of the cabinet. Control circuitry suppresses radiated output power of a wireless transceiver in accordance with the current attitude of the cabinet, which is detected by the attitude detection unit. The attitude detection unit obtains two angles φ and θ based on x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis outputs of a three-axis acceleration sensor, for example. The control circuitry determines the necessity or lack thereof of the suppression of the radiated output power in accordance with a combination of the angle values.

04-03-2014

20140089701

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SCHEDULE OF EXECUTING APPLICATION IN TERMINAL DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - A method may include associating, with a timer-B, a second application in a terminal device; setting the terminal device in a standby mode; and executing the second application when a processor in the terminal device wakes up after the timer-B measures a second amount of elapsed time. The timer-B may not initiate wake-up of the processor. The method may further include determining whether the second application is associated with the timer-B or a timer-A when the terminal device receives a command of setting the terminal device in the standby mode; and when the second application is determined as being associated with the timer-A, unassociating the second application with the timer-A. The timer-A may initiate wake-up of the processor when the timer-A measures another second amount of elapsed time while the terminal device is the standby mode. A timer associated with a first application may initiate wakeup of the processor.

03-27-2014

20140062801

MULTI-BAND FRAME ANTENNA - A multi-band frame antenna to be used for LTE, MIMO, and other frequency bands. The frame antenna includes two main parts: a metallic frame with no gaps or discontinuities, and a conductive block. The outer perimeter of the metallic frame surrounds the conductive block, and there is a gap between the metallic frame and the conductive block. The conductive block is connected to a system ground. One or more antenna feeds are routed across the gap, between the metallic frame and the conductive block. One or more electrically shorted connections may also be made across the gap, between the metallic frame and the conductive block.

03-06-2014

20140015724

ANTENNA APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH ANTENNA APPARATUS - An antenna apparatus may include a conductor layer having an aperture and a slit that adjoins the aperture; and a resonance tuning component including a first element, a second element, and a third element coupled with the first and second elements. The slit may have an opening at a periphery of the conductor layer. A first gap may be arranged between the first element and the conductor layer. At least a part of the first element may be coupled with the conductor layer. A second gap may be arranged between the second element and the conductor layer. The antenna apparatus may include a capacitor and an inductor. The capacitor may be connected with the inductor in parallel between the first element and the conductor layer. The terminal device may include the antenna apparatus.

01-16-2014

20130332918

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TIME NOTIFICATION FOR UPDATING SOFTWARE - A terminal device may include: a communication interface to receive, from a server via a network, a file for updating software in a memory device coupled with the terminal device, and a software update table that includes data regarding one or more performance values and one or more time values indicative of one or more lengths of time taken to update the software using the file; a processor to obtain data regarding a performance value of the memory device, select, from the software update table, one of the one or more performance values based on the performance value of the memory device, and obtain, from the software update table, a time value associated with the selected performance value; and an output device to provide an output corresponding to the obtained time value. Each performance value is associated with one of the one or more time values, respectively.

12-12-2013

20130321309

TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To improve ease of operation in a case where a display device and a small terminal apparatus are connected to each other, and coordinated display is performed. When a contact or approach of an object having a size greater than or equal to a threshold value with or toward the surface of a display panel is detected, a video or an instruction corresponding to the motion detected by the motion sensor is output. The display device, on the basis of the video or the instruction that is output, displays a video in which the position of a pointer or the like is changed in response to the motion detected by a motion sensor.

12-05-2013

20130244574

TERMINAL DEVICE - A terminal device including an operation unit configured to receive an operation instruction performed by an external object; an operation disabling controller which performs control such that when the terminal device is in a disabled state, the operation instruction performed on the operation unit is ignored or the disabled state is cancelled; an operation detector which outputs, when a touch operation by the external object is detected, content of the touch operation as the operation instruction; an operation speed determination unit which determines whether a movement speed of the touch operation is higher than a predetermined threshold; and an operation controller which instructs the operation disabling controller to cancel the disabled state and control execution of a predetermined function when it is determined that the touch operation is an operation instruction to cancel the disabled state and in accordance with the movement speed of the touch operation.

09-19-2013

20130227033

TERMINAL DEVICE - A client device including a first message receiver that receives a first message from an external device; a second message receiver that receives a second message from the external device; a display unit that displays one of the first message received by the first message receiver and the second message received by the second message receiver; and a controller that determines whether or not a specific address or a specific keyword is stated in the body of the second message received by the second message receiver, and discards the received second message on the basis of the determination result.

08-29-2013

20130222334

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus including a display that displays a three-dimensional (3D) image including a left-eye image and a right-eye image; a sensor unit that detects a proximity operation of an object by detecting detection data corresponding to a distance between the sensor unit and the object; and a controller that adjusts a difference between the left-eye image and the right-eye image of the 3D image displayed by the display based on the detection data detected by the sensor unit.

08-29-2013

20130208153

IMAGING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus comprising: a sensor unit including a plurality of sensor arrays that output first imaging data formed by an optical system; an array converter that generates second imaging data by converting the first imaging data output by the sensor unit into an order corresponding to a predetermined arrangement; a first signal processor that performs first signal processing on the second imaging data output by the array converter; and a second signal processor that performs second signal processing on the first imaging data output by the sensor unit.

08-15-2013

20130201151

METHOD FOR DETECTING A CONTACT - A touch panel device including a touch panel unit having transparent electrodes arranged in an X and Y direction; an electrical potential detection unit configured to scan the electrodes and detect electrostatic capacitance values in the X and Y direction; an object type detection unit configured to detect a type of object that has come within proximity to the surface of the touch panel unit on the basis of a distribution shape of the electrostatic capacitance values detected by the electrical potential detection unit; and an operation position detection unit configured to, based on the detected type of object, change a data extraction threshold value used to calculate a touch position of the object, and detect coordinates of a position at which the object has come within proximity to or come into contact with the surface of the touch panel unit based on the changed data extraction threshold value.

08-08-2013

20130194143

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - A communication terminal apparatus and wireless communication device include comprising a first antenna having a first feed point, and a second antenna including a slit antenna and having a second feed point, the second antenna being spaced apart from the first antenna. The slit antenna includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate disposed substantially parallel to the first conductive plate, and a short-circuiting structure electrically connected between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate so as to electrically short the first conductive plate to the second conductive plate.

08-01-2013

20130181941

INPUT PROCESSING APPARATUS - An input processing apparatus, including a consecutive input operation interval detector that detects a time interval between consecutive input operations received at the input processing apparatus; and an information processing unit that conducts information processing based on the detected time interval.

07-18-2013

20130181938

TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL INCLUDING TOUCH PANEL DEVICE - A touch panel device including an electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor in which a plurality of transparent electrode units are arranged in X and Y directions; a conductive layer that is connected to predetermined transparent electrode units among the plurality of transparent electrode units forming the electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor unit and that extends outward from an arrangement area of the plurality of transparent electrode units; a position detection unit that detects a position at which an external object contacts a surface near the electronic capacitance type touch sensor or the conductive layer; and a processor that executes a predetermined application program based on the position detected by the IC unit.

07-18-2013

20130179780

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An information processing apparatus that determines a direction to browsed next as a guiding direction with a location of content displayed by a display of the information processing apparatus as a reference location; determines a perceptual strength of each of a plurality of active elements disposed in different locations on or within a casing of the information processing apparatus based on the guiding direction; and controls each of the plurality of active elements based on the perceptual strengths.

07-11-2013

20130176285

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes a memory that stores a plurality of images, and a controller that obtains a template having attributes applied to each of a plurality of display areas, selects images matching the attributes of the respective display areas from among the plurality of images stored in the memory, disposes the selected images matching the attributes of the respective display areas in the respective display areas, and controls a display to display the template including the selected images disposed in the respective display areas.

07-11-2013

20130176189

MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal that includes a first antenna element disposed in proximity to a first side of the mobile terminal, a second antenna element disposed in proximity to a second side of the mobile terminal, and a third antenna element disposed in proximity to a third side of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal further including a switching mechanism that switches between a first connection mode in which the first and second antenna elements are feed elements and the third antenna element is a parasitic element, and a second connection mode in which the first and third antenna elements are feed elements, and a control unit that controls the switching mechanism to switch between the first connection mode and the second connection mode in accordance with a predetermined condition.

07-11-2013

20130172016

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An information processing apparatus that detects a first location of the information processing apparatus; receives information representing a target location from a target information processing apparatus; detects a target direction from the first location toward the target location; detects an orientation of a casing of the information processing apparatus; calculates an angular difference between the target direction and the orientation of the casing; determines a perceptual strength of each of a plurality of active elements disposed in different locations on or within the casing based on the angular difference; and controls each of the plurality of active elements based on the perceptual strengths.

07-04-2013

20130169221

CHARGING APPARATUS - A charging apparatus including a mounting portion on which a plurality of information processing apparatuses are mounted, a power transmission unit that transmits power in a non-contact manner to each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses placed on the mounting portion, and a control unit that receives a charge order instruction from at least one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and controls the power transmission unit to transmit power to each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses in an order determined based on the received charge order instruction.

07-04-2013

20130169215

CHARGING DEVICE - A charging device including a first connector connected to a power source; a second connector connected an electronic device; a magnetic element connected to a magnet of the electronic device; a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic force generated by the magnet of the electronic device; and a switch circuit disposed between the first connector and the second connector and that switches between an open state and a closed state based on an output of the magnetic sensor.

07-04-2013

20130165098

COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that receives, from another information processing apparatus, first displacement information; senses second displacement information corresponding to movement of the information processing apparatus; and establishes a connection with the another information processing apparatus based on a predetermined relationship between the first displacement information and the second displacement information.

06-27-2013

20130163158

TERMINAL APPARATUS - A terminal apparatus including a first housing; a second housing; and a slide hinge that couples the second housing to the first housing such that the second housing is slidable with respect to the first housing in a first direction between a closed state and an open state. The slide hinge includes a support plate fixed to the second housing, a movable plate slidably coupled to the first housing with respect to the support plate along the first direction, an intermediate plate slidably supported by the support plate with respect to the support plate in the second direction, and a cam mechanism that slides the intermediate plate in the second direction in accordance with a slide operation of the movable plate along the first direction.

06-27-2013

20130162566

TERMINAL DEVICE - An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display captured image at a first portion of the display; detects whether an image of a specific pattern exists in the captured image; controls the display to display an image corresponding to data in a second portion of the display; detects that a user input was received at a first position corresponding to the first portion of the display and a second position corresponding to the second portion of the display; and transmits data corresponding to an image displayed at the first position to another information processing apparatus corresponding to the captured image displayed at the second position.

06-27-2013

20130154554

MOBILE DEVICE AND CHARGING APPARATUS - When the charge level of a fully-charged rechargeable battery decreases due to quiescent power drain, in order to recharge it is necessary for the user to pick up and again place the mobile device in which the rechargeable battery is inserted onto a charging apparatus and issue instructions to start recharging. To address this issue, a charging controller applies control to disconnect a capacitor from a receiver coil with a switch in the case where the charge level of a rechargeable battery is equal to or greater than a given threshold value, and additionally applies control to connect the capacitor to the receiver coil with the switch in the case where the charge level of the rechargeable battery is less than the threshold value.

06-20-2013

20130147731

DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing apparatus including a display and a touch panel disposed on or integrally formed with the display that detects a touch input by a user. The information processing apparatus setting initial coordinates corresponding to a first position of a touch input detected by the touch panel; setting a first region and a second region of the display based on the initial coordinates; and controlling the display to change a scale of a displayed image based on a distance between the initial coordinates and a second position of the touch input continuously detected by the touch panel in one of the first and second regions.

06-13-2013

20130141857

MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A terminal apparatus that includes a first case, a second case, and a complex hinge module that has a slide hinge and a rotational hinge, to shift each of the first case and the second case between a closed state and an opened state. The slide hinge further includes a movable plate, a support plate that slidably supports the movable plate and is secured to the second case, and an elastic member configured to move the second case back toward the first case. The rotational hinge includes a fixed part secured to the first case, a rotational part which is rotatable on an axis common to the fixed part and the rotational part, and a link mechanism that connects the rotational part with the movable plate and has an extruding part to move the second case.

06-06-2013

20130141362

IMAGING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject, a display, provided on a first surface of the information processing apparatus, that displays the image of the subject, and a touch panel, provided on a second surface of the information processing apparatus, that detects a touch input, the second surface being a surface opposite to the first surface. The information processing apparatus further including a controller that receives an output from the touch panel corresponding to the touch input and outputs a command to control at least one of the imaging unit and the display based on the touch input.

06-06-2013

20130141361

TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a display; a touch panel stacked on or integrally formed with the display; and a controller that receives an output from the touch panel indicating that first gesture input is detected that substantially encloses a region of the display, and controls the display to expand an image displayed by the display based on a size of the region.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus comprising: a touch panel that detects a contact operation and a contactless operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines whether an application activated at the information processing apparatus supports contactless operations; controls the application based only on contact operations detected at the touch panel when is determined that the application does not support contactless operations; and controls the application based on both contact operations and contactless operations detected at the touch panel when it is determined that the application supports contactless operations.

04-18-2013

20130093680

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A mobile communication terminal that includes a display panel; a first touch panel provided on a surface of the display panel; a second touch panel provided on at least one surface of the mobile communication terminal other than the surface of the display panel; and a controller that controls the display panel based on at least one of a size and number of contacts corresponding to a touch input detected at the second touch panel.

04-18-2013

20130093631

MOBILE WIRELESS TERMINAL - A wireless terminal including a display device; a first conductive plate that supports the display device; a second conductive plate that supports the display device; a circuit board including a ground pattern that is connected to the first conductive plate; a radio frequency (RF) circuit mounted on the circuit board; and a first feeding unit connected to the RF circuit and disposed between the first and second conductive plates.

04-18-2013

20130076944

IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display.

03-28-2013

20130076688

MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A terminal apparatus that includes a touch panel; a proximity detection unit configured to detect an approach and contact of an external object to the touch panel based on a changed in capacitance value and to detect a location on a surface of the touch panel where the capacitance value changed; and an operation control unit configured to control the proximity detection unit to stop the detection of a location contacted by the external object on the touch panel surface when the approach of the external object is detected by the proximity detection unit.

03-28-2013

20130069836

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus that includes a first antenna section having a first power feed point; a second antenna section having a second power feed point; a first electrically conductive plate extending between the first antenna section and the second antenna section; a second electrically conductive plate disposed substantially in parallel with the first electrically conductive plate and extending between the first antenna section and the second antenna section; and a short-circuiting member that electrically short-circuits the first electrically conductive plate and the second electrically conductive plate to each other such that a slit is formed by a part of a periphery of the first electrically conductive plate and a part of a periphery of the second electrically conductive plate.

03-21-2013

20130033196

LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVE APPARATUS AND PORTABLE APPARATUS USING SAME - A light emitting element drive apparatus capable of outputting the lowest voltage satisfying drive conditions and having high light emitting efficiency and low power loss, and a portable apparatus using the same, comprising an LED drive apparatus to which LEDs of different drive voltages required for emitting light are connected in parallel and driving one or more LEDs, wherein the LED drive apparatus

02-07-2013

20130021487

IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-CAPTURE CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT - A mobile terminal having a camera function includes a camera unit for capturing an image of a subject, and an image-capture control calculation unit that controls an image-capturing operation performed by the camera unit and that also calculates a movement speed of the subject that is being captured by the camera unit. Then, when the camera unit is performing continuous image capture, the image-capture control calculation unit dynamically changes and controls an image-capture time interval at the time of continuous image capture in accordance with a movement speed of the subject.

01-24-2013

20130003334

CHIP COMPONENT, SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A chip component is provided with a block including a dielectric, input and output terminals, which are the first and second terminals that are provided on the surface of the block, an adjustment terminal that is a third terminal that includes an internal electrode extended into the block and that is provided on the surface of the block, and at least two inter-terminal circuits that are provided in the block and that are connected between at least two sets of two terminals of the first, second, and third terminals.

01-03-2013

20120320000

ELECTRONIC TERMINAL, INPUT CORRECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes a first sensor that receives a first type of signal; second and third sensors that receive a second type of signal; a control unit that calculates a position of a source from which a signal of the first type and a signal of the second type are transmitted based on a first time at which the signal of the first type is received at the first sensor, a second time at which the signal of the second type is received at the second sensor and a third time at which the signal of the second type is received at the third sensor; and a display that displays an image corresponding to a path obtained based on changes in position of the source calculated by the control unit.

12-20-2012

20120304104

CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS, CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST METHOD, AND CHARACTER INPUT ASSIST PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input at least the characters; a first character input processing section configured to perform a first character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen in accordance with a predetermined notation rule; a second character input processing section configured to perform a second character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen not in accordance with the predetermined notation rule; a scene determination section configured to determine a character input scene; and an input process switch control section configured to switch between the first character input process and the second character input process in accordance with the character input scene.

11-29-2012

20120294583

DISPLAY IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - An image processing apparatus including an input terminal that receives a plurality of image units that are temporally or spatially continuous; an image processing unit that performs image processing on the plurality of image units by iteratively performing the image processing on subsets of the plurality of image units; and a display image generating unit that controls a display to display the plurality of image units when the image processing unit begins performing the image processing; display, at a time of a completion of intermediate processing of a subset of the plurality of image units by the image processing unit, an intermediate processed image including the processed subset of the plurality of image data units; and display, after completion of the processing of the plurality of image units by the image processing unit, a complete processed image including the processed plurality of image data units.

11-22-2012

20120240208

MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A mobile terminal apparatus checks if a user is a proper user based on the operation of the user and, if the result of authentication is negative, uploads predetermined data, which is part of data stored in a memory, to a predetermined server. After the transmission is completed, the mobile terminal apparatus erases the uploaded data from the memory. It is also possible to instruct the mobile terminal apparatus to upload and erase data from an external source using an electronic mail or a telephone tone signal sequence. This may protect data contained in mobile terminal apparatus that has been lost, from a person who improperly attempts to access the data.